Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

loufan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: Lou-fan
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Example Sentences

"At least 10 villagers in Loufan county in the northern province of Shanxi were buried by a landslide on Friday morning, Xinhua said."
"On his blog, the thirty-two-year-old Sun posted an informant’s letter addressed to Wang Jun, who had recently been appointed acting governor of Shanxi province. The letter asked Wang to make a thorough investigation into a fatal landslide that had happened in this region the previous month; apparently, the landslide had been caused by the collapse of an illegal mining dump in Loufan county, and it had reportedly killed eleven people."

Etymology

From Mandarin 婁煩／娄烦 (Lóufán).

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Inflected Forms

Lou-fan (alternative)

Questions

What does loufan mean?: A county of Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.
Where does loufan come from?: From Mandarin 婁煩／娄烦 (Lóufán).

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